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Who do you consider family?

"Families are more diverse and the structure of them is more in flux," says sociologist Kelly Musick of Cornell University. "One of the things that's happened is people have lot more leeway to design the families that work for them."

Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who assisted the Pew research team, says people think today of "family as a relationship rather than an institution."

"If you have a close relationship and act committed, then you count as family," she says. "If you're making obligations to partners and kids, you get counted as family, as opposed to older ways of thinking when it was purely the legal definition."

Link to full article: http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/sex-relationships/marriage/2010-11-18-pew18_ST_N.htm?csp=obinsite

pretty much just my SO's family...those are the people i can really be myself around and go to for anything...my dad has always been there when i really needed it, but i certainly cant be myself around him.